Hi, I'm Scott Hahn, and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amas, a podcast from the St. Paul Center.

Today, we are really blessed to have Dr. John Bardsma, our vice president here, but also a colleague

and a dear friend and neighbor.

And we're going to be talking about his newest book, Jesus and the Jubilee, the Biblical

Roots of the Year of God's Favor.

Welcome, John.

Thanks, Scott.

So Jubilee could be your middle name because it was the topic of your doctoral

dissertation at Notre Dame. It was also your first major publication back in 2006 from E.J. Brill.

Right. So it comes in around $200. $2.70 at last. $2.70. Give it?

Yeah.

It's worth it.

But you did give me a copy.

So that was the Jubilee from Leviticus to Qumran.

Correct.

And it has been so favorably reviewed over the course of 5, 10, 15, 20 years. And so I don't want to just say

you're one of many experts. You really are internationally, the expert on the year of Jubilee.

And I think originally you were planning to take it from Leviticus 25 all the way to Luke 4.

That's correct.

But realistically, you had to end a little sooner than the New Testament.

That's right.

But now you're picking up where you left off.

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